Author Topic: Trainspotters. Why? (Read 57004 times)

dim · « **Reply #300 on:** March 01, 2017, 09:50:04 pm »

Quote from: Regulator on June 30, 2011, 04:10:35 pm

I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...

...but bus spotters Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r

Tim Hall · « **Reply #301 on:** March 01, 2017, 11:03:56 pm »

Quote from: dim on March 01, 2017, 09:50:04 pm

Quote from: Regulator on June 30, 2011, 04:10:35 pm
I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...

...but bus spotters Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r

Somewhat lacking in excellence there, I feel.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #302 on:** March 02, 2017, 10:48:49 am »

Quote from: Tim Hall on March 01, 2017, 11:03:56 pm

Quote from: dim on March 01, 2017, 09:50:04 pm
Quote from: Regulator on June 30, 2011, 04:10:35 pm
I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...

...but bus spotters Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r

Somewhat lacking in excellence there, I feel.

Digging up a post the thick end of six years old? Nothing much to see on the platforms at Lime Street ATM, I suppose.

woollypigs · « **Reply #303 on:** March 15, 2017, 09:31:04 pm »

Because you want to get close ...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--aLupcuyc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lu50zwzimma12ir1nv9v.gif

Maybe a bit too close this time, look at the lady with the hat.

Ruthie · « **Reply #304 on:** October 08, 2017, 09:28:57 pm »

At Darlo station last Tuesday

Untitled by Ruth Irving, on Flickr

rogerzilla · « **Reply #305 on:** October 08, 2017, 09:55:46 pm »

They weren't so shiny when they were hauling freight in the 50s!

My father was a bit of a trainspotter and rode in the cab of the LMS Turbomotive, about the only unconventional steam locomotive to be superior to the conventional type (Gresley tried a water tube boiler, Bulleid got away with some shocking things like the Leader class and chain-driven valve gear, but none of them worked well). Turbomotive was damned by its umiqueness in the end, being rebuilt as piston-engined Princess Anne when it needed spare turbine parts and promptly being written off at Harrow & Wealdstone.

mcshroom · « **Reply #306 on:** October 08, 2017, 09:57:19 pm »

A Black 5, and one with a place in history

http://kwvr.co.uk/steam-train/london-midland-scottish-railway-class-5mt-black-5-4-6-0-no-45212/

Andrij · « **Reply #307 on:** September 14, 2018, 04:10:46 am »

Spotted in Marc's in Broadview Heights, Ohio.

20180905_120314 by Andrij, on Flickr

Beardy · « **Reply #308 on:** September 14, 2018, 08:45:59 am »

I didn’t know there was a train spotters thread, if I had I’d have got photographic evidence¹.

The florist where we got the flowers for mum’s funeral was in a garden centre whose owner I assume was a train spotter because suspended in the roof space in more than one place where G scale rail tracks complete with trains trundling around them.

woollypigs · « **Reply #309 on:** September 14, 2018, 08:57:43 am »

Quote from: Beardy on September 14, 2018, 08:45:59 am

I didn’t know there was a train spotters thread...

Just like there is an app for that, there's a thread for that

Andrij · « **Reply #310 on:** September 29, 2018, 08:13:44 pm »

20180928_175521 by Andrij, on Flickr

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, recorded after yesterday's ride through Cleveland Metroparks (ride report to follow).

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #311 on:** March 24, 2019, 08:09:13 pm »

Steam on the underground!

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In conjunction with the London Transport Museum, TfL will run a steam train along the District line later this year. The modernisation of signalling on the Hammersmith & City, District, Circle and Metropolitan lines means that this will be the last time a steam train will be able to travel through the central section of the Underground.

Details of the steam train tours will be announced later this year.

Could be rather smelly...

Guy · « **Reply #312 on:** March 25, 2019, 09:37:56 am »

I still have the picture and article from the Grauniad about the last steam train on London Underground.* It was an ex-GWR Pannier in London Transport red, with a couple of wagons and a brake van. The picture was taken at the same location as the one above, but from a different angle.

*We were doing painting at Playgroup and the newspapers were covering the tables**. I was allowed to use the scissors to cut the item out myself

**I seem to have a lot of Grauniad articles from that time, mainly covering rail and aviation topics.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #313 on:** March 26, 2019, 08:59:56 am »

Here you go Guy some video of that day:

https://youtu.be/SKetxc9lFm8

https://youtu.be/ri0_M6F7aPA

https://youtu.be/2TjPdjFXImg

Guy · « **Reply #314 on:** March 27, 2019, 06:24:03 pm »

Thanks for the links @pcolbeck. I'd never seen those before

Andrij · « **Reply #315 on:** September 23, 2019, 06:55:54 pm »

Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #316 on:** September 23, 2019, 08:05:38 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on September 23, 2019, 06:55:54 pm

Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other?

Tokyo to Singapore... Jacob's bogies...AGV... maglev...

(but what was he thinking with that shirt!)

Andrij · « **Reply #317 on:** September 23, 2019, 08:17:43 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on September 23, 2019, 08:05:38 pm

...
(but what was he thinking with that shirt!)

That one is pretty low-key. Check out some of his other videos.

Andrij · « **Reply #318 on:** May 23, 2020, 09:57:20 pm »

And another from Curious Droid: What happened to the Trans Europe Express?

I love the Italian train!

MikeFromLFE · « **Reply #319 on:** May 24, 2020, 09:11:46 am »

Quote from: Andrij on May 23, 2020, 09:57:20 pm

And another from Curious Droid: What happened to the Trans Europe Express?

I love the Italian train!

Wikipedia is your friend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Europ_Express
Essentially TEE was a branding exercise for first class, fast, long distance trains run by multiple cooperating national operators.
As they separately developed their own fast services, and the prices of second class travel dropped, the model fell apart.
The nearest we have now are the Thalys services. And the various national operators find it hard even to cooperate on cross border ticketing.
Great looking trains, bloody good tune.